https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-what-s-coming-next-to-free-edition/m-p/160941#M893 <P><SPAN>Databricks is expanding </SPAN><STRONG>Free Edition</STRONG><SPAN> with five new additions - </SPAN><STRONG>Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer</STRONG><SPAN>, giving learners and builders a broader free toolkit for end-to-end data and AI projects.</SPAN></P> <P><FONT size="4"><STRONG>What’s new:</STRONG></FONT></P> <UL> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Genie Code</STRONG><SPAN>: Ask Genie to analyze data, clean pipelines, or build visualizations, and it can generate, run, and refine the code for you.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Serverless GPUs</STRONG><SPAN>: Free Edition now includes GPU access, subject to availability, for deeper AI work like training, fine-tuning, and inference.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Lakebase</STRONG><SPAN>: Build with a fully managed Postgres-compatible database designed for data apps and AI agents, directly alongside the lakehouse.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Agent Bricks</STRONG><SPAN>: Use pre-built components for tools, memory, orchestration, and evaluation to start building AI agents faster.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Lakeflow Designer</STRONG><SPAN>: Create and understand data pipelines visually, with a more beginner-friendly way to design flows inside Databricks.</SPAN></LI> </UL> <P><SPAN>Free Edition has already been used by </SPAN><STRONG>more than 500,000 people</STRONG><SPAN>, and Databricks says it has provided </SPAN><STRONG>more than $10M in free credits</STRONG><SPAN> to support learning, experimentation, and real projects. Recent hackathon submissions showed that range in practice, with projects spanning AI, ML, data engineering, and analytics across builders from </SPAN><STRONG>16+ countries</STRONG><SPAN>.</SPAN></P> <P class="p8i6j01 paragraph"><A style="background-color: #ff3621; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; display: inline-block;" href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-coming-next-free-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":backhand_index_pointing_right:">👉</span> Read the full post here</A></P> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:01:25 GMT Tushar_Parekar 2026-06-30T11:01:25Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-what-s-coming-next-to-free-edition/m-p/160941#M893 <P><SPAN>Databricks is expanding </SPAN><STRONG>Free Edition</STRONG><SPAN> with five new additions - </SPAN><STRONG>Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer</STRONG><SPAN>, giving learners and builders a broader free toolkit for end-to-end data and AI projects.</SPAN></P> <P><FONT size="4"><STRONG>What’s new:</STRONG></FONT></P> <UL> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Genie Code</STRONG><SPAN>: Ask Genie to analyze data, clean pipelines, or build visualizations, and it can generate, run, and refine the code for you.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Serverless GPUs</STRONG><SPAN>: Free Edition now includes GPU access, subject to availability, for deeper AI work like training, fine-tuning, and inference.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Lakebase</STRONG><SPAN>: Build with a fully managed Postgres-compatible database designed for data apps and AI agents, directly alongside the lakehouse.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Agent Bricks</STRONG><SPAN>: Use pre-built components for tools, memory, orchestration, and evaluation to start building AI agents faster.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Lakeflow Designer</STRONG><SPAN>: Create and understand data pipelines visually, with a more beginner-friendly way to design flows inside Databricks.</SPAN></LI> </UL> <P><SPAN>Free Edition has already been used by </SPAN><STRONG>more than 500,000 people</STRONG><SPAN>, and Databricks says it has provided </SPAN><STRONG>more than $10M in free credits</STRONG><SPAN> to support learning, experimentation, and real projects. Recent hackathon submissions showed that range in practice, with projects spanning AI, ML, data engineering, and analytics across builders from </SPAN><STRONG>16+ countries</STRONG><SPAN>.</SPAN></P> <P class="p8i6j01 paragraph"><A style="background-color: #ff3621; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; display: inline-block;" href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-coming-next-free-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":backhand_index_pointing_right:">👉</span> Read the full post here</A></P> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:01:25 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-what-s-coming-next-to-free-edition/m-p/160941#M893 Tushar_Parekar 2026-06-30T11:01:25Z